Ephesians 2:5

Easy To Read Version

We were \{spiritually\} dead. We were dead because of the things we did wrong against God. But God gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace (kindness).

Cross References

Luke 15:24

My son was dead, but now he is alive again! He was lost, but now he is found!’ So they began to have a party.

John 5:21

The Father raises dead people and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to the people he wants to.

John 6:63

It is not the body that gives a person life. It is the spirit that gives life. The things I told you are spirit. And so these things give life.

Acts 15:11

No, we believe that we and these people will be saved by the grace (kindness) of the Lord Jesus!”

Romans 16:20

The God that brings peace will soon defeat Satan (the devil) and give you power over him.

Romans 3:24

People are made right with God by his grace (kindness). This is a free gift. People are made right with God by being made free from sin through Jesus Christ.

Romans 4:16

So people get God’s promise by having faith. This happens so that the promise can be a free gift. And if the promise is a free gift, then all of Abraham’s {\cf2\super [42]} people can have that promise. The promise is not only for those people that live under the law \{of Moses\}. The promise is for any person that lives with faith like Abraham. Abraham is the father of us all.

Romans 5:10

I mean that while we were God’s enemies, God made friends with us through the death of his Son. So surely, now that we are God’s friends, God will save us through his Son’s life.

Romans 5:6

Christ died for us while we were still weak people. We were living against God, but at the right time, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

But Christ died for us while we were still sinners. In that way God showed us that he loves us very much.

Romans 8:2

Why? Because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit {\cf2\super [58]} that brings life made you {\cf2\super [59]} free. It made you {\cf2\super [60]} free from the law that brings sin and death.

2 Corinthians 13:14

The grace (kindness) of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship (sharing) of the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [50]} be with you all.

Ephesians 2:1

In the past, your spiritual lives were dead because of your sins and the things you did wrong against God.

Ephesians 2:8

I mean that you are saved by grace. And you got that grace by believing. You did not save yourselves. It was a gift from God.

Ephesians 5:14

And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say:

Colossians 2:13

You were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self. But God made you alive with Christ. And God forgave all our sins.

Titus 2:11

\{That is the way we should live,\} because God’s grace (kindness) has come. That grace can save every person. And that grace has been given to us.

Titus 3:5

I thank God because I hear about the love you have for all God’s holy people {\cf2\super [1]} and the faith you have in the Lord Jesus.

Revelation 22:21

The grace (kindness) of the Lord Jesus be with all people.